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    Institutional Assets and Adaptability: NATO After the Cold War

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    What happens to alliances when their precipitating threats disappear?Understood in realist terms, alliances should not outlive the threatsthey were created to address. As coalitions of states aggregating theircapabilities to cope with common enemies, alliances should have nopurpose beyond deterrence or defense, and no resources beyond the powerand purpose of their members. When threats disappear, allies lose theirreason for cooperating, and the coalition will break apart. Consistentwith the theoretical underpinnings of realist theory, early in thepost Cold War period many scholars predicted NATO s demise.

    Imperfect Unions Security Institutions Over Time and Space

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